The Country Wife
A source page for quotes linked to William Wycherley.
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“Temperance is the nurse of chastity.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :
Source: Country Wife and Other Plays
“Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.”
Source: The Country Wife
“Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.”
Source: Four Great Restoration Comedies
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. A New Edition
“As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :
“Wit has as few true judges as painting.”
Source: Country Wife and Other Plays
“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”
“Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.”
Source: The Country Wife
“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”
Source: Country Wife and Other Plays
“Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”
Source: The Country Wife: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley
“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.
“Necessity, mother of invention.”
Source: Plays Written by Mr. William Wycherley: Containing The Plain Dealer, The Country Wife, Gentleman Dancing Master, Love in a Wood...
“Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”
Source: The Country Wife
Source: The Country Wife
“Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”
Source: Four Great Restoration Comedies
“Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.”
Source: Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous works
“A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.”
Source: The Country Wife
“Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”
Source: Country Wife and Other Plays
“He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”
“Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.
“Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”
“Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.”
“I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.”
Source: The Country Wife